CVE-2024-1048 (GCVE-0-2024-1048)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-06 17:30
Modified
2025-08-30 09:10
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. After the fix of CVE-2019-14865, grub2-set-bootflag will create a temporary file with the new grubenv content and rename it to the original grubenv file. If the program is killed before the rename operation, the temporary file will not be removed and may fill the filesystem when invoked multiple times, resulting in a filesystem out of free inodes or blocks.
Impacted products
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 1:2.02-156.el8   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 1:2.06-77.el9   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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